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Join us for JHOVE Hack Week

Our first online Hack Week of 2019 will take place 8-12 April

We invite you to join contributors around the world to help improve JHOVE, an open source file format validation tool for digital preservation. We have extended the event format from a day to a week to make it easier for people to join in as and when they can. Our past online hack days were a great success, and collectively we achieved a huge amount in just 24 hours:

This hack week will focus on development tasks, and we plan to run another hack week in September to address documentation tasks. We will be concentrating on the ‘quick fixes’ to reduce JHOVE’s issue list on GitHub and make it easier to plan future releases.

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